The Gospel Defined

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“What Do Ye More Than Others?”    

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Matthew 5:47

Let it be clearly established that we who believe are justified by grace alone, in Christ alone, through faith alone,without the works of the law.The Lord Jesus Christ earned and obtained justification for all his people by his obedience to God as our Representative and by his sin-atoning death as our Substitute (Heb. 9:12; Rom. 4:25). We were legally reconciled to God in justification by the death of his Son (Rom.5:10). Justification is also an act of God’s free grace (Rom. 3:24) Continue reading →

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THE GOSPEL DEFINED

The Gospel Defined

Text:            Romans 1:1-7, 16-17

Subject:       Paul’s Definition of the Gospel

Date:            Sunday Morning – April 23 , 2000 (The Audio is dated 2/2/2014 ) 

Tape #         V-79a

Reading:      Romans 1:1-17

Introduction:

 

Should you go to the street corner of any city in this country and ask those who passed by, or stand upon the doorsteps of almost any church building and ask folks as they left the church house this morning, “What is the gospel?” you would get a different answer from almost every person. Almost all people define the gospel by their own experiences, thoughts, and emotions, by their church creed, or by an opinion handed down to them by someone else. The vast majority of men and women are not terribly dogmatic about what the gospel is, and acknowledge that one person’s opinion, or one churches teaching is really as good as another.

 

However, if you open the Word of God, you will very quickly discover that this blessed Book everywhere asserts that there is only one gospel, and that every rival gospel is a false gospel. Granted, the gospel is called by many different names in the New Testament.

 

  • The Gospel of God
  • The Gospel of the Kingdom
  • The Gospel of Christ
  • The Gospel of the Grace of God
  • The Gospel of Peace
  • The Glorious Gospel of Christ
  • The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

 

Still, there is but one gospel, one gospel which we must believe, if we would be saved. All other gospels are false gospels and, therefore, no gospel at all. The Apostle Paul tells us plainly that all who preach a false gospel are false prophets, and all who believe a false gospel are damned by the gospel they believe. Continue reading →